Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:48:43 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD Message-ID: <m37jo9wkv8.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <41A65FA7.2080704@mukappabeta.de> (Matthias Buelow's message of "Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:41:43 %2B0100") References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200411251807.47294.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <20041125194327.C5321@bigtower.net> <1101411381.568.1.camel@grass.dyndns.org> <1101411674.99948.51.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <86u0rdr9l0.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <1101412864.568.7.camel@grass.dyndns.org> <41A63AE3.9020008@mukappabeta.de> <20041125221914.M81723@wcborstel.nl> <41A65FA7.2080704@mukappabeta.de>
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Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> writes: > (but are probably well-known to the competitor). With the drivers > getting bigger and bigger (the ATI Catalyst graphics driver component > alone is over 8 megs), maybe a lot of the logics is actually in the > proprietary driver code? Likely. The same can be seen for CPUs, more and more specialization is in the compiler. Ask Intel, Sun or Mips how much they're spending on chip development and how much on compiler development. :) -- Matthias Andree
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